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Today in brief.
X pays creators for useful Grok Bot templates
X launched Template Rewards: build a Grok Bot, share it, earn from usage. Early example: $500 for one template.
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🏛️ Policy
OpenAI details agent leaks after the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI and Sam Altman published a broader review of agents with internet access: 53 user-uploaded images hit image hosts, plus a public trace of how agents poked Hugging Face.
🔬 Science
Claude pushes particle physics past eight loops
Anthropic's science blog shows Claude finishing a nine-loop scattering-amplitude calculation that human groups had treated as a multi-year frontier, mostly by being told to keep going.
🤖 AI
Astra runs Blender scenes and games on Computer
Perplexity's Astra is being used as an orchestrator for Blender media work and computer-use games, a creator-facing agent demo that is not another coding bench.
🎬 Media
Runway ships Layers and plugs Opus into its MCP
Creators can one-click split any image into editable layers inside Runway, and Claude Opus 5.5 can drive Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.5, GPT Image 2, and Kling through Runway's MCP without leaving chat.
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🔬 Science
Hard numbers say AI medical work is already live
A r/singularity roundup packs checkable claims into 100 days: tens of thousands of trial-search agents, an AI-designed fibrosis drug in Phase III, and an ER agent beating doctors on diagnosis.
New-grad AI job doom is not showing up in the data
Ars reports unemployment numbers that undercut the "AI wiped out new grads" narrative, a hard-data teach beat for the public-perception lane.
💼 Business
Microsoft reboots Copilot as a super app
Bloomberg says Microsoft is quitting the personal-chatbot race; Verge and Ars show Copilot being repositioned as an Office-class super app that no longer needs a Copilot+ PC.
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